Motivational Quotes

Business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

- Oscar Wilde

Best Quotes about Business

When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.

Iacocca, Lee

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.

Ogilvy, David

Forty for you, sixty for me And equal partners we will be

Barzan, Gerald

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

Buffett, Warren

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Ford, Henry

Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it.

You don't want to get the same kind of advice from everyone on your board.

Cardenas, Ruben

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Luce, Henry

Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To succeed as a team is to hold all of the members accountable for their expertise.

Mitchell Caplan

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

Wilde, Oscar

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I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Ford, Henry

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Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Jacobs, Randall

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We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Adolt, H. V.

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The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Riklis, Meshulam

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If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Marcinko, Richard

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Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Henderson, Bruce

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I buy when other people are selling.

Getty, J. Paul

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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

Kashoggi, Adnan

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It's the economy, stupid.

Clinton, Bill

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Every business is built on friendship.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Quality, service, cleanliness, and value.

Ross, Steven J.

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Our planning system was dynamite when we first put it in. The thinking was fresh; the form mattered little. It was idea oriented. We then hired a head of planning, and he hired two vice presidents, and then he hired a planner; and the books got thicker, and the printing more sophisticated, and the covers got harder, and the drawings got better.

Welch, John

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Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.

Smith, Roger

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What helps people, helps business.

Burnett, Leo

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Work is our business; it's success is God s.

Proverb, German

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For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed

Carlson, Curtis

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Frankly, I don't want to see a rapid upturn.I want it to hold until some of these idiotic competitors go bust.

Bamford, Joe

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If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say 20%, there is a problem.

Mcgovern, William

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There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

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It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (AGMs), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas.

Harvey-Jones, John

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Cut your losses and let your profits run.

Proverb, American

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In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.

David M. Ogilvy

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It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Ford, Henry

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Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Dane, Frank

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Lippmann, Walter

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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

Mcnealy, Scott

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The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

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The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.

Collins, Nathan

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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Hook, Harold

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Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

Grove, Andrew

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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

Little, Royal

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Location, location, location.

Dillard, William

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.

Erhard, Ludwig

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If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?

Townsend, Robert

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Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Field, Marshall